Trichococcus

Trichococcus is a mesophilic and psychrotolerant genus of bacteria from the family of Carnobacteriaceae. Trichococcus bacteria have the ability to utilize sugars, sugar alcohols and polysaccharides. Some species of Trichococcus species where transferred from the genera Lactosphaera and Ruminococcus.

Trichococcus
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Trichococcus

Scheff et al. 1984
Type species
Trichococcus flocculiformis
Species

T. alkaliphilus
T. collinsii
T. flocculiformis
T. ilyis
T. paludicola
T. palustris
T. pasteurii
T. patagoniensis
T. shcherbakoviae

Synonyms

Lactosphaera

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